Ethiopia writeshop
Info Centre, ILRI campus
Addis Ababa
4-7 August 2015

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Background

Africa RISING is now more than half way through its first phase of the project life time . The first phase will come to an end in September 2016. since the start of the full
research implementation in 2012 a lot of publication has been produced by the team. In addition, a lot of data were captured during the implementation period .
The Africa RISING team in Ethiopia has come to the understanding that the project has a lot to offer in terms of scientific publications which has not been done so far .
Thus, it has been agreed to organize a writeshop where by the research team sit together for four days to focus and write scientific papers including journal articles and
evidence briefs.

objectives

This is the first writeshop that Africa RISING project in Ethiopia is organizing . It aims at :

1. Looking at the available data the project team has
2. Write draft journal articles and evidence papers
3. Taking lessons and plan for the next one

Participants

This writeshop will bring together around 30 Researchers and scientist that are working under the Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands . the particpants are mostly from the CGIAR members however we have also some participants from Government institutions including research centers .

Agenda

Day one : Tuesday , 4 August 2015
Activity	Time	Responsible Person
Welcome, introductions , expectations	0900	Siboniso M, Peter B, Simret Y
Process introduction	1000	Peter B
Break	1030	Organizers
Initial work on products	1100	Participants
Lunch	1230	Organizers
Products feedback	1400	Peter B
Break	1530	Organizers
Working on products; team forming	1600	Participants
Day Two : Wednesday , 5 August 2015
Activity	Time	Responsible Person
Writing in Groups , Consultation with editor	0830
Break	1030	Organizers
writing to be read		Tilahun A
Writing in Groups , Consultation with editors	1100
Lunch	1230	Organizers
Writing in Groups , Consultation with editors	1400
Break	1530	Organizers
Process and products update Editorial feedback and insights	1600	Peter B James
Day Three : Thursday , 6 August 2015
Activity	Time	Responsible Person
Writing in Groups , Consultation with editors	0830
Break	1030	Organizers
Writing in Groups , Consultation with editors	1100
Lunch	1230	Organizers
Sharing lessons: editorial and content	1400	James
Break	1530	Organizers
Writing in Groups , Consultation with editors	1600
Reception		Organizers
Day Four : Friday , 7 August 2015
Activity	Time	Responsible Person
Wrapping up – process and plans	0830	Peter B
Writing on product drafts	0930
Break	1030	Organizers
Products update – reporting back	1100	Peter B
Lunch	1230	Organizers
Products update – reporting back	1400	Peter B
Break	1500	Organizers
Next steps, actions, learning, evaluation	1530	Peter B + SImret Y

Person-product matrix

Title of product	Production lead (one person only)	Contributors (people who will help with writing)	Type of outputs (journal article/evidence brief; in some cases possibly a report)
Why farmers reject improved faba bean management in favour of their traditional practices?	Aberra Adie	Kindu Mekonnen, Melkamu Bezabih,Girma Kassie, Sied Kamal, Alan Duncan, Annet Mulema,Peter Thorne	Evidence Brief but later it may develop to journal article
Dual purpose legumes for ruminant nutrition
VARIATION IN GRAIN AND STRAW TRAITS OF FABA BEAN (vicia faba) AND ITS POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS TOWARDS DUAL PURPOSE FABA BEAN VARIETIES	Ashraf Alkhatib	Jane Wamatu ,Tena ALemu ,Teklu Wegi	journal article/submitted
Determinants of farmers’ Decision on Utilizing Cereal and Legume Residues as Feed and Soil Mulch in the Ethiopian Highlands	Ashraf Alkhatib	Jane Wamatu ,Tena ALemu ,Teklu Wegi	journal article/ submitted
Adapting sustainable intensification options to local conditions using local knowledge: Lessons from mixed crop-livestock-tree farming systems in the Ethiopian highlands	Anne Kuria	Anne Kuria, Martha Cronin, Genevieve Lamond, Tim Pagella, Fergus Sinclair, Kiros Hadgu and Aster Gebrekirstos.	journal article
Prospects of preventing and mitigating the effects of enset Xanthomonas wilt (EXW): Lessons from Lemo woreda, Ethiopia	Zerihun Yemataw	Jogo Wellington, Ashenafi Mekonen, Kindu Mekonen, Kalpana Sharma	Evidence Brief/ Finalized
Adding Value in a Changing World: The need to mechanize small scale processing of faba bean	Eliud Birachi	Edith Wairimu, Wellington Jogo, Ashenafi mekonnen, Annet Mulema Kindu Mekonnen, James Steplton	Evidence briefs/Finalized
Demand-Oriented Production is Key to Sustainable and effective Value Chain; Case of Potato Value Chain in Africa RISING sites	Eliud Birachi	Edith Wairimu, Wellington Jogo, Ashenafi mekonnen, Annet Mulema Kindu Mekonnen, James Steplton	Evidence briefs/ Finalized
Bringing wheat, potato and faba bean seeds to markets in the Ethiopian Highlands	Eliud Birachi	Edith Wairimu, Wellington Jogo, Ashenafi mekonnen, Annet Mulema Kindu Mekonnen, James Steplton	Evidence briefs/ Finalized
Upgrading wheat grain quality along the value chain in Ethiopia	Edith Wairimu	Edith Wairimu, Wellington Jogo, Ashenafi mekonnen, Annet Mulema Kindu Mekonnen, James Steplto	Evidence briefs/ Finalized
An adaptive landscape planning and management tool to tackle soil erosion and downstream sedimentation	Lulseged Tamene	Tesfaye Yaekob+Soil Erosion and SLM protocl members+Zenebe Adimassu	Draft towards journal article
Discharge and sediment analysis across different land use/cover types, management practices and scales	Tesfaye Yaekob	Lulseged Tamene+Soil Erosion and SLM protocol members+Tesfaye Yaekob+Zenebe Adimassu	Draft towards journal article
Towards degninsig complementary landscape restoration and water harvesting options: a framework for out-scaling	Kifle Woldearegay	Kifle Woldearegay, Lulseged Tamene, Kindu Mekonnen, Tesfaye Yaecob, Zenebe Adimassu, Tilahun Amede	First draft is shared with the second authors and second draft is almost ready to be distributed to the rest of the team
Integration of Chamaecytisus palmensis (tree lucerne) in the crop-livestock system for multiple products and services	Kindu Mekonnen	Wellington Jogo, Melkamu Deresh, Peter Thorne and Annet Mulema	Journal article
Factors enhancing or hindering women farmer participation in agricultural research and extension activities	Annet Abenakyo Mulema	Elias Damtew and Wellington Jogo	Journal article
Determinants of adoption and impact of sustainable intensification technologies in the Ethiopian highlands	Fitsum Hagos	Aster Gebrekirstos, Lulseged Tamene Desta and Petra Schmitter	Final draft
Supplemental irrigated fodder production and sheep fattening as a source of income for smallholder: Lessons from Southern Ethiopia	Melkamu Bezabih	Alan Duncan, Aberra Adie, Kindu Mekonnen, Peter Thorne	The paper has been submitted and is currently under review Journal Name: Small Ruminant Research (Elsevier Journal)
Capturing the most significant stories: Evidence from the Africa RISING project in Ethiopia	Elias Damtew	Simret Yasabu and Zelalem Lema	Evidence Brief/ /Finalized
Agricultural pathways to improved nutrition in Ethiopian highlands The policy environment and local institutional capacity assessment	Mariama Fofanah and Zelalem Lema	Tilahun Amede	Evidence Brief/Finalized
Integrate soil fertility management in the Ethiopian highlands	Tilahun Amede	Lulseged Tamene	Journal article

Day one - Tuesday

The writshop started with a brief introductory remark by Kindu Mekonnen. He highlighted how important this writshop is to Africa RISING project in Ethiopia particularly in relation to the external evaluation which will be done in mid September . Kindu then invited Siboniso Moyo, DDG of ILRI In Ethiopia to do a welcoming remark . In her remarks she highlight that Africa RISING is ending by September 2016 and a lot of datas have been collected and we need to make sure that are captured and put into products . so this wirtshop is expected to help people to work on those products . she also stressed that such kinds of events needs people's commitment and urge participants to stay on board until the end of the writshop. finally she wishes everyone a very fruitful deliberation and promised to come back at the end of the writeshop to see the progress made.

Following the welcoming remarks Simret Yasabu lead an interactive session to help participants know who is in the room and later broke participants in to groups to list down their expectation in the four days . The groups were formed under four topics . The first group is those who have experience in writeshop and have experience in writing journal articles / evidence briefs . the second group is those who have no experience in writeshop and who have no experience in writing journal articles/ evidence briefs. the third group is those who have no experience in writshop but who have written journal articles/evidence briefs . the fourth one is those who have experience in writeshop but no experience in writing journal articles /evidence briefs .

Expectation

Group one -those who have experience in writeshop and have experience in writing journal articles / evidence brief
- draft paper- dataset ,tables, clearly defined scope of each produce
- lead author should have a clear understanding of the available information to be shared with the group
- editors will avail time to guide the teams/authors /resource persons
- Africa RISING will be willing and bale to cover the time financial resources to take up the products beyond the writeshop
- Agree on clear timeline to take the products forward
Group Two- who have no experience in writeshop and who have no experience in writing journal articles/ evidence briefs
- Producing journal articles
- Framework to develop evidence briefs to journal articles
- Good exposure for writeshop
- Specifically improving drafts
- Lessons from participants
Group Three -who have no experience in writeshop but who have written journal articles/evidence briefs
- getting objective feedback from scientists outside my discipline
- writing tips and feedback
- to know what a writeshop is all about
- to have an over-view /collective picture of Africa RISING outputs
- to develop a framework on how to translate and present raw data
Group Four- who have experience in writeshop but no experience in writing journal articles /evidence briefs .
no one was on this group

Peter Ballantyne then did a brief presentation(click here for full presentation) on the objectives as well as how the process will look like through out the days. He then asked participants to grab flip chart and describe what there output will look like . Later each lead writer presented there flip charts in groups and got feedback from others .

Title: variation of faba Bean straw quality and their potential implications towards food-feed faba beans
Type of product: Journal Article
Current status: near final
Key Results
1- Variation in grain and straw yield
2- Variation of straw quality
3- Positive correlation between grain and straw yield
4- Lack of significant variation between grain and straw quality
Data we have
1- straw quality analysis
2- agronomic data

Lead – Ashraf
Contributors – Kindu, Melkamu and Aberra
Title: Tobit estimation on the determinant and the pressures of Gramineous legumineous residues as feed and soil mulch in Ethiopian highlands
Type of product: Journal article
Current status: near final
Key results:
1- farmers use legume and cereal straws without considering the difference in feeding value
2- agro-ecology affects the use of crop residues (more humid ,more straw used as mulch)
3- extension affects positively in the quality of CR uses
4- more available feeds/CR more use as mulch
5- proportion of straw used as mulch is not enough
Lead: Ashraf
Contributors: Tilahun, Kindu, Melkamu, Aberra, Zelalem and James
Title: Most significant change technique as a form of participatory monitoring and evaluation tool
Type of products: evidence brief
Key results:
1- Africa RISING has nurtured good partnership and research collaboration with local research centers
2- Africa RISING has produced research evidence that influenced government practice in some sites
Key Messages

• More partners involvement in capturing stories is instrumental in promoting Africa RISING success
• A viable/ functional system has to be put in place not only to collect some nice stories but to create a learning platform
• What constitute “change” has to be clearly defined by stakeholders /end users but not by Africa RISING researchers

Data/Evidence – some stories have been collected and qualitative information from MSC process implementation for a year
Lead: Elias Damtew
Contributors – Simret Yasabu, Zelalem, Peter B and Annet
Status: Near final draft
Title: Integrating tree lucerne (chamaecytisus Palmensis) in the crop-livestock farming systems for multiple products and services
Type of product: Journal article
Key results to be communicated
Hypothesis
- Survival of tree lucerne on-farm is influence by management ,biophysical and socio-economic factors
- Management –fencing ,watering ,cultivation (wedding)
- Socio –economic – labor ,gender ,knowledge
- Biophysical – Niche ,growth available land
Data and evidence
- Biophysical –survival ,growth ,niche – we have it partially
- Management –weeding ,fencing ,cultivation ,watering (we have it partially )
- Socio –economic – farmers profile ,baseline data for tree lucerne ,FRG(we have it )
- Data on baseline ,farmers profile and growth are being sorted and we are in preparation for analysis
- Description ( cross tabulations ,ANOVA)
- Regression analysis – to understand determinants of survival of tree lucerne on-farms
Lead : Kindu
Members of the writing team- Kindu, Wellington, Melkamu, Annet, Peter T . Tilahun , Anne
Current status – half way
Title: soil erosion at different scales to evaluate /compare management options /treatments
Type of article: Journal article
Key results:
- Soil loss and runoff at plot scale on different land uses and with different management practices
- Discharge and sediment yield at landscape scale with different management practices

Data and Evidence
- Runoff and soil loss
- Discharge and sediment yield
- Land use
- Soil
Lead : Lulseged
Team members – Lulseged, Kifle, Kindu, Tilahun and Zenebe
Status – starting
Title: crop diversity and development pathways: do they vary due to access to irrigation?
Type of product - journal article
Key messages
- 5 technologies are important
- These technologies are mostly complementary
- Key determinants for adoption identified
- +ve and –ve impact of productivity is determined
Evidences- statistical model already estimated
Lead : Fitsum
Team members- Fitsum, Lulseged, Ashraf
Status- near final
Title: crop and livestock value chain in Africa RISING project
Type of product – synthesis
Key Results /messages
- Opportunities for market linkages
- Opportunities for commercialization at farm level
- Targeting interventions
- New product/development business
- Policy support (areas)
Data /Evidence
- Four sites value chain reports
- Platform reports – all sites
- Other project reports –PCA,SLATE, Monitoring reports
Lead : Eliud
Members of the writing team – Edith, wellington, Ashraf, Kindu, Annet, Mariam
Current status – starting (all evidences available), livestock synthesis report (associated inputs), and crop synthesis report (associated inputs)
Title: towards designing landscape –based complementary land and water management options: a framework for out-scaling
Type of the product: journal article
Key messages
- Which technology works best where?
- Importance of implementing linked technologies along the landscape continuum
- Which factors determine the suitability/applicability of the different WH/land management options
Data /evidence needed
- Case studies of different technologies/landscapes
- Experience /expert knowledge
- Literatures
Lead: Kifle
Members of the writeshop team- Kifle, Lulseged, Tilahun, Kindu, Tesfaye
Current status: half way
Title: operational tool to predict soil erosion and simulate impacts of management options
Type of products: Journal Articles
Key research and results
- Quantity the amount of soil loss and map its spatial distributions
- Identify and map hotspot areas that require priority management interventions
- Develop scenarios to evaluate the potential impacts of site and context specific interventions
- Design a ‘tool’ that can be used by local stakeholders
Data and evidence
- Data on key soil erosion components
- User-friendly graphic interface
- Model to be used ‘selected’ based on justification
Lead : Tesfaye
Members- Tilahun, Fitsum, Kindu, Kifle
Current status: ‘middle ‘stage but can be ready soon if there are “incentives”
Title: improving household through bio fortification of farm and landscapes
Type of product: journal articles
Key results:
- Relationship between poor soils and poor nutrition
- Difference between various Africa RISING woredas’ in terms of wheat grain quality – implications
- Effects of various combinations of fertilizers on grain quality and feed quality
Key messages:
- Location and nutrition interactions
- Policy implications
Available data:
- Fertilizer effects in 120 farmers ,4 districts
- Yield / biomass
- Nutrition quality (protein ,energy ,amino acid ,Ca Zn)
- Farmers perception/assessment
Lead : Tilahun
Writing member: Mariama, Lulseged, Kindu, Zelalem
Status: analyzed data/tables
Title: determinant of women participation in agricultural research and extension in rural Ethiopia
Type of product: Journal articles
Key Results:
- Socio –economic characteristics of women participating and non – participants
- Level of women’s participation in Agricultural research and extension activities
- Socio-economic and institutional factors that enhance or hinder women participation
Key Messages

1. Level of education ,household headship ,farming experience ,household size influence women participation
2. The level of women participation in agriculture research and extension activities is low
3. Women’s workload ,culture ,leadership ,access control of resources ,technological appropriateness explain women’s low level of participation
4. Opportunities exist to enhance women’s participation such as increased access to credit ,land social groups

Data and evidence
- Quantitative data – household surveys
- Qualitative data- focus group discussions

• Demographic characteristic
• Socio –economic factors
• Types of research and extension activities
• Institutional factors

Lead : Annet
Writing members – Elias and wellington
Status: starting

Title: using local knowledge to understand the fine-scale variations in challenges and opportunities for sustainable intensification
Type of outputs: Journal article
Key results
- Although there were common challenges ,across the sites ,there were also challenges unique to each site
- There were challenges that will constrain effective implementation of SI interventions
- Local knowledge helped to enhance understanding of temporal and historical genesis of land pressures
- Due to seasonality of products and ecological processes occurring ,system boundaries went beyond the administrative boundaries
Key Messages:
- Characterizing and identifying fine-scale variations in local context is critical to identifying which level of SI is required (ecological ,genetic , or socio-economic)
- Socio – economic intensification is critical to remove hindrances to ecological and genetic intensification
- Local knowledge is critical in determining why, where and when tree cover loss occurred. currently ,we have no or limited data available at fine-scales
- There is need to plan for SI interventions at the bio-geo physical boundaries ,not administrative boundaries
Data and evidence: we have 4 local knowledge based produced using AKT5 tool, FGDs household interviews
Lead: Anne
Members of the writing team: Ashenafi, Ashraf, Elias and Tesfaye
Current status: Half way
Title: Trade off analysis of growing Faba bean with traditional and improved practices at lemo and Basona Africa RISING sites
Type of output: Evidence brief
Key results:
- Faba bean grain yield did not vary significant between the two practices
- Faba bean residue biomass yields were significantly higher from faba bean plots grown without forages
- The amount of additional forage produced the traditional practice ranged from 1.44 -2.01
- No significant difference in nutrients value of straw between the two practices
- Trade off analysis is underway
Data /evidence
- Forage yield
- Grain yield
- Straw yield
- Nutrient analysis of straw and forage
Lead: Aberra
Writing team member: Peter, Kindu, Melkamu, Annet
Title: importance of xanthomonas wilt (EXW) on enset genetic diversity and distribution in Lemo woreda, Hadiya zone, Ethiopia
Type of product – evidence brief
Key results and messages
- Farmers understanding of EXW and traditional control measures
- How the disease affect enset biodiversity –importance
Data and evidence
- Focus gropu discussion
- Household survey data (SPSS)- 40 HH
Lead: Zerihun Yemataw
Members of the writing team: Zerihun, Ashenafi, wellington, Kindu
Current status: starting
TITLE: Promising Agricultural pathways to improved nutrition: Policy environment assessment
KEY RESULT AND MESSAGES (woreda and kebele level)

• Coordination issue: Lack of community level coordination mechanisms (HEWs and DAs)
  • due to weak coordination of activities among key actors (woreda office of agriculture, office of health and agriculture research center) to address nutrition through agriculture
  • Commitment Issue: The level of commitment by woreda office of agriculture experts to mainstream nutrition into agriculture programming is low (less prioritized)
    • There is lack of nutrition sensitive agriculture advocacy by experts
    • There is little finance to have a nutrition expert and support activities
    • Capacity Issue: Overall key sectors lack technical expertise, knowledge in implementing nutrition sensitive agriculture
      • Training materials relevant for nutrition sensitive agriculture are lacking at the woreda and kebele levels
      • Gender Issue: Gender policies related to nutrition are not integrated into program activities

Data Available/need: secondary data, key informant interviews, focused group discussions site visits
Lead: Mariama
Members of the writing team: Zelalem, Tilahun
Title : Potential of irrigated fodder production and sheep fatten as a source of income for small holders: lessons from lemo and Angacha
Key results :

• the fodder yield ranged from 2.5 -5 tons/ha
• protein and energy contents of the fodder ranged from 15-20% and 9.3-10.4 MJ/KG DM respectively
• daily body weight gain of the fattening sheep ranged from 52-110g/day,with significant difference between sites and gender gaps
• partial budget analysis shows that the fattening business with supplemental fodder is profitable provided there is good market information

Data:

• irrigated fodder yield and chemical composition
• weekly body weight gain
• purchase and sales prices
• feedback from farmers

Lead: Melkamu
writing team members: Peter T. Kindu, Aberra
Status: near final

Day Two - Wednesday

The second day focused more of writing . Participants continued working on there outputs . Before the morning tea and coffee break lead authors shared
where they are with regard to the status of their outputs in terms of percentage and the status they expect their products will be by the end of Friday.
After the coffee and tea break Dr Tilahun Amede gave a short presentation on how to write a readable papers .
Link to the presentation

Day Three - Thursday

The third day was mainly a writing day with the expectation of the last hour of the day where people shared the status of the output they are working on. Most of the evidence briefs reached 90% and believed to be finalized on the last day . We have found two Journal articles almost finished and some more to be in a good draft form by the end of the writeshop. Siboniso Moyo also came and gave a brief words appreciating the efforts being made by the team as well as the progress she head on the outputs . The day ended with a reception .

Day Four - Friday

The whole morning of the the fourth day which is the last day of the writeshop focused on writing ,polishing and editing . After lunch time Peter Ballantyne facilitated a session on what other outputs we can produce in the six FtF indicators

FtF indicators - what we should do

1. climate smart agriculture-
2. gender integrations
3. improved niutrion
4. inclusive agriculture sector growth
5. private sector engagement
6. research and capital building

Every one is asked to write a page or so linking to one or more of FtF indicator. Kindu and Simret has been nominated to coordinate the collection of the outputs.
Next Action

Publishing the briefs

ready for editing - Simret to collect the brief by 12 of August - and to finish off by the end of August

Publishing the articles

there was a discussion on if the outputs should go as a special issues or just published as individual . So it was agreed to go ahead with individual publications taking in to account the right acknowledgment . for the special issues it was agree what the results will be from this season and thinking of a writeshop in January 2016.
A team is also formed to have some discussions about the special issues, the scope .Tilahun,Kindu ,Leulseged

Supporting the process

Any one who wants any support can still go to any one whom she/he things should get a support from ,the communication team to get a support .
Simret to follow on the process and check with people where they are and also make sure there is an update on the Africa RISING monthly meeting

Evaluation of the writeshop

Before the closure of the writeshop Simret Yasabu Facilitates a short session to do a kind of evaluation about the writeshop. this was done in two ways . the first one was participants were asked to look back at the first day of the writeshop and see if their expectation which they mentioned in groups were met . they were asked to make a start on those which they believed were met . After that there was a short plenary where by participants were asked to give their views on what went well, what should have been done and what should be considered . the points are summarized:

What went well/what was great

• It brought together the team with different spcialization
• it was great for lead authors to frame their outputs
• it strength collaboration
• good opportunity for the academia to get focus on writing
• got objective feedback
• great facilitation
• the attendance for the final day was a s the same as the first day which is great

What should be improved

• when participants comes it will be good if the status of their outputs are more or less at a similar status /levels
• it would have been good to ask people to prepare a 5 minutes power point presentation at the beginning of the writeshop

What should be considered

• it may be good to have one umbrella as a frame where different outputs fit in . For example to have Sustainable intensification as an umbrella and asking people to write under this
• it may also be good to organized writeshop in thematic areas e.g bring Gender people to write a product

Closing remarks

Kindu Mekonnen then gave a brief concluding remark . He appreciated the team interest and dedication of their time to sit and write. These outputs will be a great outputs to share for the external evaluation team . He Thanked Peter Ballantyne for the great facilitation and also helping the team to shape up the process . He also thanked Simret Yasabu for her unreserved effort to make this happen and finally every one for being part of the writeshop .

Title of product	Production lead (one person only)	Contributors (people who will help with writing)	Type of outputs (journal article/evidence brief; in some cases possibly a report)
Trade-off analysis of growing faba bean with forages and without forages	Basically Peter Thorne, and Aberra Adie coordinates the data collection	Kindu Mekonnen, Melkamu Bezabih, Girma Kassie, Sied Kamal, Alan Duncan, Annet Mulema	Evidence Brief but later it may develop to journal article
Dual purpose legumes for ruminant nutrition
i. Determinants of utilization of pulse and cereals straws in the mixed crop-livestock systems of the Ethiopia Highlands	Ashraf Alkhatib (on behalf of J. Wamatu)	Ashraf Alkhatib	Journal article (draft is ready)
ii. Varietal variations in food-feed traits in faba bean from the Ethiopia Highlands	Ashraf Alkhatib (on behalf of J. Wamatu)	Ashraf Alkhatib	Journal article (draft is ready)
iii. Evaluating the nutritive value and dry matter intake of straws from Ethiopian faba bean varieties	Ashraf Alkhatib (on behalf of J. Wamatu)	Teklu Wegi, Ashraf Alkhatib	Journal article (draft is ready)
iv. Effect of feeding faba bean straw from different varieties on fattening performance and carcass characteristics of Ethiopian rams	Ashraf Alkhatib (on behalf of J. Wamatu)	Teklu Wegi, Ashraf Alkhatib	Journal article (draft is ready)
v. Optimizing near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy to predict nutritional quality in chickpea haulms for livestock feed	Ashraf Alkhatib (on behalf of J. Wamatu)	Tena Alemu, Ashraf Alkhatib	Journal article (draft is ready)
Farmer's perceptions of sustainability		Tilahun Amede
Perceptions of Sustainability and implication for Sustainable Intensification in Ethiopia Social Analysis of Irrigation Potential in Ethiopia	Valentine Gandhi	Peter Thorne	Possibly Critical Sociology Journal
The role of local knowledge for assessing sustainable intensification options in tree-crop-livestock mixed farming systems in the Ethiopian Highlands	Anne Kuria	Martha Cronin, Genevieve Lamond, Tim Pagella, Kiros Hadgu, Fergus Sinclair and Aster Gebrekirstos	journal article/ synthesis report
Exploiting Indigenous Knowledge for the Management and Conservation of Enset (Ensete ventricosum(Welw.) Cheesman) Biodiversity On-farm in Lemo Woreda, Hadiya zone, Ethiopia	Zerihun Yemataw	Jogo Wellington, Ashenafi Mekonen, Kindu Mekonen,	Journal Article
Importance of Xanthomonas wilt (EXW) on Enset genetic diversity and Distribution in Lemo Woreda, Hadiya zone, Ethiopia	Zerihun Yemataw	Jogo Wellington, Ashenafi Mekonen, Kindu Mekonen,	Journal Article
Crop and livestock value chains in the Ethiopian Africa RISING Project	Eliud Birachi	Wellington Jogo, Dirk Hoekstra, Edith Wairimu, any of the site coordinators that can be available, and sultan (student)	Evidence briefs
Targeting agricultural inputs to system niches in the Ethiopian highlands
Participatory research Approach and technology diffusion(scaling) in Africa RISING Site
An adaptive landscape planning and management tool to tackle soil erosion and downstream sedimentation	Lulseged Tamene	Tesfaye Yaekob+Soil Erosion and SLM protocl members+Zenebe Adimassu
Discharge and sediment analysis across different land use/cover types, management practices and scales	Tesfaye Yaekob	Lulseged Tamene+Soil Erosion and SLM protocol members+Tesfaye Yaekob+Zenebe Adimassu	Draft towards journal article
Towards designing landscape-based complementary land and water Management options: a framework for out-scaling	Kifle Woldearegay	Lulseged Tamene and "Land and Water Management" protocol members+Tesfaye Yaekob and Zenebe Adimassue	Draft towards journal article
Integration of Chamaecytisus palmensis (tree lucerne) in the crop-livestock system for multiple products and services	Kindu Mekonnen	Wellington Jogo, Melkamu Deresh, Peter Thorne and Annet Mulema	Journal article
Factors enhancing or hindering women farmer participation in agricultural research and extension activities	Annet Abenakyo Mulema	Elias Damtew and Wellington Jogo	Journal article
Crop diversity and livelihood pathways: Do they vary due to access to irrigation?	Fitsum Hagos	Temperate fruit protocol team members	Draft to journal article
Piloting supplemental irrigated fodder production and sheep fattening as a source of income for smallholders in southern Ethiopian
Most significant change approach; and significant stories
Farmers Research Groups(FRGs) in Africa RISING
Formative food and nutrition security assesment report (Qualitative)	Mariama Fofanah and Zelalem Lema	Sinana and Basona Worena research team members ,Tilahun Amede	Assesment Report
SLATE write up and synthesis
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